Re: st: wrapping axis labels in -graph hbar-

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Of course. I think I used to know that.

thanks,
Jeph


Scott Merryman wrote:
> Like this?
>
>  sysuse auto,clear
>  graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(rep78, relabel(1 `""A Very Very Very"
> "Very Long Label""'))
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net> wrote:
> > I'm generating a large number of graphs, all of which are
> > horizontal bar graphs:
> >
> >  graph hbar var1 var2, over(group)
> >
> > My problem is that several -group- category labels are quite
> > long, so that the figure is compressed to the right to make
> > room.
> >
> > Ideally (that is, rather than chopping down and/or footnoting)
> > there would be a way to wrap these labels into two lines. Since
> > each -group- value has two bars, there is plenty of space for
> > two lines of text; however, I cannot find a way to wrap the
> > text, even if I manually break it up into fragments. Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > By the way, I have tried shrinking the labels:
> >
> >  graph hbar var1 var2, over(group, label(labsize(small)))
> >
> > but this doesn't solve the problem (and doesn't look very good).
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jeph
> >
> >
> >
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